Actually, it was med #2, and he never actually said "I think, therefore I am" in that work, though it sumarizes his point. He declared it not as a conditional statement, but rather as an axiom.
I almost dropped out of high school because I had college entrance scores in the 95th percentile by the end of 7th grade. I ended up graduated a year early, and I treated college the same way I treated high school -- as a joke. I became disillusioned with school early on, and thus failed to really get all I could out of my university education. Graduating even earlier probably would have benefited me.
On the flip side, I dated a girl who graduated high school at 15. She was bright, but she couldn't take the pressure of university, and she turned into a fuckup. She flunked out of college, and last I heard she couldn't even hold down a job. So it's probably not something that can be considered wholely good or bad to allow kids to graduate early.
1.) show that the global temps have consistently dropped or stayed the same since the 50s
2.) show that increased CO2 does not cause a greenhouse effect.
That would be fitting, since I'm trying to compute Erlang C values.. I was just hoping to find something that would't require a clunky integration with.NET, or require me to learn a new language.
I remember in college needing to plot parametric equations to print out, and not knowing how to do so in any available software. so I wrote my own plotter in Python in roughly an hour.. Powerful language.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good arbitrary precision decimal math library, preferably for Mono/.NET? Everything I've tried seems to crap out on division of numbers in the range of 10^100000. So far I've had to use arbitrary precision integer libraries, then use the old fixed point math hacks that used to be common before CPUs had floating point support.
We get a disturbing number of resumes claiming 20+ years of overall experience who can't seem to code their way out of a wet paper bag.
I quit using this analogy after I thought about it for a while.. Short of coding for a robotic system, I can't think of any way to code an escape from a wet paper bag.
I don't know about you, but I think ~$680 billion is worth it to get out from under China's thumb. Hell, we gave the bankers more than that this year to spend on hookers and blow.
This is the answer, and we all know it.. If we move all our industries out of China, it becomes nothing but an empty husk. Google doesn't really have a lot to lose by exiting China, but it certainly makes for big headlines when they decide to do so. Maybe other corporations will follow. The only way Western countries stand a chance in the next 20 years is if we disentangle ourselves from China.
Very true, and I'm aware of this.. I just don't know of a better way to do it. I use this method when I have a large sample size and a distribution that's more or less consistent with a bell curve. There is actually one group that had a standard deviation so small that I had to throw the data out because it was useless. I'm not overly worried about it, since the metric to determine the initial score is BS to begin with (useful BS, but still BS), so it's no surprise that the end result is BS. Nobody gets killed or fired (directly) over these scores, it's more of a system to determine who to watch more closely. If you know of a better way to statistically determine a "score" without a large sample size or a normative distribution, please let me know what it is.
Just imagine, you'd be able to send anything anwhere at any time, as long as it fit in a pneumatic tube. Sure, it might be slow, but unlike UPS, where I can track my package as it sits in their warehouse for 5 days only 20 miles from my house, I could actually watch my deliveries as they make their way to me in real time.
Also, i guess I should finish by explaining yhat we decided to only use this system with groups that had a big enough sample size, so it all worked out.
The actual "final score" is recorded in the DB as a floating point value indicating the person's distance from the mean in standard deviations (i.e. A value of 1 is one std dev above the mean, -2.5 is tho and a half std devs below). I just display it as a grade so that our salesmen and managers can more easily comprehend it. I learned this little trick in class.. Where I went to school, the math and science professors all seemed to like grading on a bell curve, so that the average student was actually a C student.
The 75 average corresponds to the american school grade system, making the scoring accessible to users. The max score was 2.5 standard deviations higher, and the minimum grade was 7.5 std. devs lower. Also, it was a requurement that workers only be scored against workers in their area of expertise, because scores vary widely from one group to another. It worked great for the group of 150 workes, not so well for the group that only had 3 workers. None of those things should cause a problem, except the low sample size. i could explain further, and you could stick your foot in your mouth, but there's a high statistical probability that you're just an asshole who doesn't listen and simply makes assumptions.
I was tasked recently with developing stat reports that would be used to give the best workers the most important tasks. I used their desired metric, and modified the numbers to show on a 0-100 scale where 75 is average and each standard deviation is 10 points. The result? The sample sizes were too small, and some groups had widely varying scores when every group member's performance was nearly identical. Then again, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I didn't RTFA, but I'd be pissed if my email server filtered out someone's email just because they had the name "Bill Gates". You know the famous one doesn't have a monopoly on that name, right?
If you don't mind, how did you design it? Does it capture traffic over port 80, and send it through email to an outside server than sends it to the destination and sends an email back with the result, then captures the email and sends it back through port 80 on your local machine?
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You're either a Philosophy student, or you just watched Donnie Darko for the first time, right?
Actually, it was med #2, and he never actually said "I think, therefore I am" in that work, though it sumarizes his point. He declared it not as a conditional statement, but rather as an axiom.
What was the algorithm? For all I know (having not read TFA), it could be that they replaced bubble sort with quicksort.
What game engine supports rape? World of Sex Crimes? Everrape?
So you're saying that analyzing movement patterns allows you to predict movement patterns. Would you like to guess the color of my red car?
I almost dropped out of high school because I had college entrance scores in the 95th percentile by the end of 7th grade. I ended up graduated a year early, and I treated college the same way I treated high school -- as a joke. I became disillusioned with school early on, and thus failed to really get all I could out of my university education. Graduating even earlier probably would have benefited me.
On the flip side, I dated a girl who graduated high school at 15. She was bright, but she couldn't take the pressure of university, and she turned into a fuckup. She flunked out of college, and last I heard she couldn't even hold down a job. So it's probably not something that can be considered wholely good or bad to allow kids to graduate early.
1.) show that the global temps have consistently dropped or stayed the same since the 50s
2.) show that increased CO2 does not cause a greenhouse effect.
Um, he's black? Duh.
That's a spreadsheet app though, right? I need a library function.
That would be fitting, since I'm trying to compute Erlang C values.. I was just hoping to find something that would't require a clunky integration with .NET, or require me to learn a new language.
I remember in college needing to plot parametric equations to print out, and not knowing how to do so in any available software. so I wrote my own plotter in Python in roughly an hour.. Powerful language.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good arbitrary precision decimal math library, preferably for Mono/.NET? Everything I've tried seems to crap out on division of numbers in the range of 10^100000. So far I've had to use arbitrary precision integer libraries, then use the old fixed point math hacks that used to be common before CPUs had floating point support.
Are you sure it's not a libertarian mantra coined by Heinlein? That's the context in which I've always heard it used.
We get a disturbing number of resumes claiming 20+ years of overall experience who can't seem to code their way out of a wet paper bag.
I quit using this analogy after I thought about it for a while.. Short of coding for a robotic system, I can't think of any way to code an escape from a wet paper bag.
I don't know about you, but I think ~$680 billion is worth it to get out from under China's thumb. Hell, we gave the bankers more than that this year to spend on hookers and blow.
This is the answer, and we all know it.. If we move all our industries out of China, it becomes nothing but an empty husk. Google doesn't really have a lot to lose by exiting China, but it certainly makes for big headlines when they decide to do so. Maybe other corporations will follow. The only way Western countries stand a chance in the next 20 years is if we disentangle ourselves from China.
Of course. That's where the AIDS came from.
Very true, and I'm aware of this.. I just don't know of a better way to do it. I use this method when I have a large sample size and a distribution that's more or less consistent with a bell curve. There is actually one group that had a standard deviation so small that I had to throw the data out because it was useless. I'm not overly worried about it, since the metric to determine the initial score is BS to begin with (useful BS, but still BS), so it's no surprise that the end result is BS. Nobody gets killed or fired (directly) over these scores, it's more of a system to determine who to watch more closely. If you know of a better way to statistically determine a "score" without a large sample size or a normative distribution, please let me know what it is.
Just imagine, you'd be able to send anything anwhere at any time, as long as it fit in a pneumatic tube. Sure, it might be slow, but unlike UPS, where I can track my package as it sits in their warehouse for 5 days only 20 miles from my house, I could actually watch my deliveries as they make their way to me in real time.
Also, i guess I should finish by explaining yhat we decided to only use this system with groups that had a big enough sample size, so it all worked out.
The actual "final score" is recorded in the DB as a floating point value indicating the person's distance from the mean in standard deviations (i.e. A value of 1 is one std dev above the mean, -2.5 is tho and a half std devs below). I just display it as a grade so that our salesmen and managers can more easily comprehend it. I learned this little trick in class.. Where I went to school, the math and science professors all seemed to like grading on a bell curve, so that the average student was actually a C student.
The 75 average corresponds to the american school grade system, making the scoring accessible to users. The max score was 2.5 standard deviations higher, and the minimum grade was 7.5 std. devs lower. Also, it was a requurement that workers only be scored against workers in their area of expertise, because scores vary widely from one group to another. It worked great for the group of 150 workes, not so well for the group that only had 3 workers. None of those things should cause a problem, except the low sample size. i could explain further, and you could stick your foot in your mouth, but there's a high statistical probability that you're just an asshole who doesn't listen and simply makes assumptions.
I was tasked recently with developing stat reports that would be used to give the best workers the most important tasks. I used their desired metric, and modified the numbers to show on a 0-100 scale where 75 is average and each standard deviation is 10 points. The result? The sample sizes were too small, and some groups had widely varying scores when every group member's performance was nearly identical. Then again, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I didn't RTFA, but I'd be pissed if my email server filtered out someone's email just because they had the name "Bill Gates". You know the famous one doesn't have a monopoly on that name, right?
If you don't mind, how did you design it? Does it capture traffic over port 80, and send it through email to an outside server than sends it to the destination and sends an email back with the result, then captures the email and sends it back through port 80 on your local machine?